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AT THE WATER'S EDGE
By: Sara Gruen
Spiegel & Grau
April 2015
On Sale: March 31, 2015
Featuring: Ellis Hyde; Madelline Hyde; Hank
ISBN: 0385523238
EAN: 9780385523233
Kindle: B00P5557I0
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In this thrilling new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Waterβs Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young womanβs awakening as she experiences the devastation of World War II in a tiny village in the Scottish Highlands. After disgracing themselves at a high society New Yearβs Eve party in Philadelphia in 1944, Madeline Hyde and her husband, Ellis, are cut off financially by his father, a former army colonel who is already ashamed of his sonβs inability to serve in the war. When Ellis and his best friend, Hank, decide that the only way to regain the Colonelβs favor is to succeed where the Colonel very publicly failedβby hunting down the famous Loch Ness monsterβMaddie reluctantly follows them across the Atlantic, leaving her sheltered world behind. The trio find themselves in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands, where the locals have nothing but contempt for the privileged interlopers. Maddie is left on her own at the isolated inn, where food is rationed, fuel is scarce, and a knock from the postman can bring tragic news. Yet she finds herself falling in love with the stark beauty and subtle magic of the Scottish countryside. Gradually she comes to know the villagers, and the friendships she forms with two young women open her up to a larger world than she knew existed. Maddie begins to see that nothing is as it first appears: the values she holds dear prove unsustainable, and monsters lurk where they are least expected. As she embraces a fuller sense of who she might be, Maddie becomes aware not only of the dark forces around her, but of lifeβs beauty and surprising possibilities.
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